A Quiz about the Quiz Tool Results

This is the quiz results page. If your browser supports JavaScript, this page is generated on the fly according to your answers; otherwise, all you see is the text associated with the B parts of the questions.

Question 1: What token starts the quiz header? >>QUIZ-HEAD Question 2: The quiz is titled using the >>QUIZ-TITLE line. Such a line starts with >>QUIZ-TITLE followed by the title of the quiz, one or more words, on the same line. What token introduces the quiz title? >>QUIZ-TITLE Question 3: Each question in the quiz is introduced by the >>QUIZ-QUEST token. Three types of entities exist in this section:

the question text
the answers
the text to display with the scored quizThese entities can be in any order. The text of the question follows the Q token. That must be the first token on a line, followed by the text of the question on one or more subsequent lines, each of which must start with the Q token. There are two types of answers: right answers, and wrong answers. They may be displayed each on a line by itself-- in rows-- or all on one line-- in columns. Each answer is introduced by a two-character token: R for row or C for column, followed by W for wrong or R for right, or correct. That's followed by the text associated with the answer, on a single line. Which of the following is a valid token for introducing an answer?

CW Question 4: You specify the text to be printed if the question is correct, the text to print if the answer is wrong, and the text to print in either case, introduced by the single-character tokens R, W, and B, respectively. The text starts on the line with that token, and may continue on subsequent lines (which must also start with R, W, or B. Pay particular attention to the text printed for both correct and incorrect answers, because this is all that a user with a JavaScript-challenged browser will see. Did the Seahawks stadium bond issue pass? yes, it did Question 5: The only type of question supported by the quiz is multiple choice with a single answer. That means that you can't ask a user to check all the correct answers. That sounds severe until you realize that most modern multiple choice tests have the same limitation. Remember, too, that a true or false question is really a form of multiple choice question. True or false: you can submit essay questions with this software. false Question 6: That's pretty much it, except for two more tokens: >>QUIZ-FOOT and >>QUIZ-RFOOT specify text to be displayed at the bottom of the quiz and the result, respectively. That reveals another limitation of the software: the quiz consists of leading text, followed by questions, followed by trailing text; the result consists of leading text, followed by answers, followed by trailing text. That's a bit rigit, perhaps, but you can always go in and edit both the quiz and the results after generating the quiz. Don't do that, though, until you are perfectly happy with the output of the software, because if you run it again, you'll lose your edits. And, you can embed HTML tags in your input to get sexier output.

We've seen examples of everything so far except row-formatted answers. Why do you think that is?

I was saving the best for last.

That's about it. To run the program, you type-- for example, if you created your quiz in a file called doggy.quiz-- this:

quiz.pl doggy.quiz

Of course, you need to have perl5 on your system, and quiz.pl needs to be in your path, and it needs to be marked executable, or nothing will happen. If it does work, the output is created in two files named by whatever you gave on the >>QUIZ-NAME line. If you specified doggy, look for doggy.html and doggy_result.html. You're done! Test by opening your browser on doggy.html and be sure that doggy_result.html is in the same directory.